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Aquarium Advice Apprentice
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- Jul 11, 2010
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I need some serious help. After a weeks worth of research I know I did a bunch wrong but here’s how it started.
A week or so ago my son comes home from the local carnival with a goldfish (I didn’t take him). So it’s 10:30 at night and he has this fish in a bag and I know nothing about fish, never had one before. So I take him out of the bag and stick him in a mason jar because that’s all I have. Next day I run to the local Walmart and get this: Walmart.com: Tetra Aquarium Starter Kit, 5 Gallons: Fish
It’s a 5g starter kit. So I put the goldfish in there once I have it set up and condition the water (mistake #1 as the tank had no time to cycle, just learned that term a couple days ago). Eventually get some gravel which I boil to make sure it’s clean and add some fake plants and we add goldfish #2 because well I have two little kids right? Mistake #2. So now we have a Comet and a Black Moor both about an inch long not including tail fin.
Next we notice this thing hanging on to the side of Mr. Carnival fish and what looks like some kind of sore. More research and we are guessing anchor worm. So I go to the LFS and treat that (first performing fish surgery) and Mr. Carnival seems great. I change the carbon filter and do two 1g water changes over the course of 2 days along with cleaning out the gravel. They really need a tad more info on the siphon for beginners, makes sense now but was confused for about 5mins.
Ok so now we are up to today and I notice some mild red marks like streaks or thin spots under the jaw of the Black Moor and I don’t know what to do. Also from everything I’ve read I really need something like a 30-50g tank for two goldfish! So basically are these two goldfish doomed?
I figure I’ll need to change at least 2g each week while cleaning the gravel for waste is there anything beyond buying a big tank I can do for them? Air Stone, live plants?
I may eventually get a big tank as I am having fun although if I do that I’ll go with a live rock and salt water tank (the amount of info on that will take me 6 months to figure out) and eventually a mild reef set-up but not with lots and lots of research first if ever.
A week or so ago my son comes home from the local carnival with a goldfish (I didn’t take him). So it’s 10:30 at night and he has this fish in a bag and I know nothing about fish, never had one before. So I take him out of the bag and stick him in a mason jar because that’s all I have. Next day I run to the local Walmart and get this: Walmart.com: Tetra Aquarium Starter Kit, 5 Gallons: Fish
It’s a 5g starter kit. So I put the goldfish in there once I have it set up and condition the water (mistake #1 as the tank had no time to cycle, just learned that term a couple days ago). Eventually get some gravel which I boil to make sure it’s clean and add some fake plants and we add goldfish #2 because well I have two little kids right? Mistake #2. So now we have a Comet and a Black Moor both about an inch long not including tail fin.
Next we notice this thing hanging on to the side of Mr. Carnival fish and what looks like some kind of sore. More research and we are guessing anchor worm. So I go to the LFS and treat that (first performing fish surgery) and Mr. Carnival seems great. I change the carbon filter and do two 1g water changes over the course of 2 days along with cleaning out the gravel. They really need a tad more info on the siphon for beginners, makes sense now but was confused for about 5mins.
Ok so now we are up to today and I notice some mild red marks like streaks or thin spots under the jaw of the Black Moor and I don’t know what to do. Also from everything I’ve read I really need something like a 30-50g tank for two goldfish! So basically are these two goldfish doomed?
I figure I’ll need to change at least 2g each week while cleaning the gravel for waste is there anything beyond buying a big tank I can do for them? Air Stone, live plants?
I may eventually get a big tank as I am having fun although if I do that I’ll go with a live rock and salt water tank (the amount of info on that will take me 6 months to figure out) and eventually a mild reef set-up but not with lots and lots of research first if ever.